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It's planned to plant them into Lachuza Pon granulate. Got good experience with it with this years chili peppers :)
I will just concentrate on the dwarfs here. I seeded 2 Diesel Auto and one Royal Jack Auto. The Jack and one Diesel are not to see yet :(
1 Dwarf will be topped and stressed a little, the other one will only be stressed a little.
I do some coffee grounds in the water for the plants to make it softer. But no more.
Nuts should be only the long time nuts in the granulate. If the plants show me need of some they get it. But not yet decided what kind of. My chilipeppers this year didn't need additional nuts but had a lot of peppers!
I have a 60x60x140 cm grow box. I will show you more in the next days/weeks.
6th day: First root is looking out of the cube of 1st and 2nd Lady <3
Tommorow they will get there final home!Hope they like the Lachuza Pon granulate ... Didn't found tries in that yet :(
7th day: In the evening I put them into their homes ... 7l pots filled with Lachuza Pon granulate saturated with coffee grounds filtered water.
Added last photos for the 1st week. Tomorrow I will start week 2 with photos exactly 1 week after putting the seeds into the stonewool cubes. ~1300 UTC
2nd Lady maybe gets yellow veins ... panic!
LED set up to 70 Watts.
10th and 11th day 0,3l water.
12th day no water
EC Water: 250-350 ppm
- 80 Ca mg/l
- 35 Mg mg/l
13th day: I decidet to put one of the Ladies into coconut substrate with some adds of expanded clay and perlite. Seems to me very difficult to pull down the pH of the Luchaza pon granulate :-/ Let us compare their future grow!
Your plants are fine brother ! They aren't suffering from anything . The main thing you wanna focus on when they are young like that is not over watering them . Your starting PH in a soiless mix in my opinion should be 6.1 6.2 and you would gradually move it up to 6.3 or 6.4 this will ensure that your plant will not suffer from nutrient lock outs . I can see that you are folliar spraying your plants although this is good for them I wouldn't do it every day I would do it every 3 days or so , reason being is that when they are young like that a lot of what they absorb is through the leaves , so do it sparingly when young like that so you avoid over watering issues . As they get a little bit older you can add a rooting stimulate like piranha or voodoo juice (anything like those products is fine don't have to be those ones) a chelation agent ( humic / fulvic acids) and very very very light dose of which ever Veg solution you have chosen . If you do these things you will have no problems in the veg cycle and you will have wonderful healthy plants . I hope I've helped a little bit :)
Starting to add 0.5 ml/l BioGrow and Topmax for 2nd lady. 1st lady still don't get adds.
Plant light set up to 100W LED + 4x10W Philips bulbs on day 25.
Watering only if the pot of 2nd lady is very light. Then as much water until it comes out of the bottom of the pot. 1st lady in granulate gets water the same time but seems to needs much less water.
The ladies seem to start flowering. They don't really grow in height ... Too much light?
I let 1st lady grow as she wants to. 2nd one still doing LST on her.
End of Day 29 added 2ml/l Biobloom and 1ml/l Topmax to 2nd lady and some Ph7 water until pot was full ... 1st lady gets just Ph 7 water around 1-2 l....
Set up plant light up to real 120W (300W as prospect says ;-))(plus 4x 10W Philips Bulbs) (60 x 60 cm @ 25 cm, 2 plants)
Watering 2nd lady was around 1-2 l after 3-4 days
Day 32: 2nd lady was very light green ... Feeded her with a 8-6-6 nut 2ml hope not too much 😳
Height is over rated. What you want is an even canopy; that been said, the stretch will pick up its pace during the 2nd week of flowering. Now lights, your grow space is 60*60 (4 sq ft) for LED lights, you need between 30 to 40 watts per sq ft, in this case 150 watts puts you at 37.5 watts / sq ft, so I don't recommend more light, but if you can get away with it, get the lights closer, that will certainly help the plant, as long as the temperature at canopy level is appropriate; keep in mind that getting the light closer increases the intensity of light dramatically for the plant. Since you are using a soiless media, I would add some form of cal / mag additive, just enough to get 0.5 EC (250 PPM) as a base water (0.5 to 1 cc per liter should do, depending on your water EC/PPM). Also up the biogrow to 2 cc/lt and start adding bio-bloom as soon as you see the first flowers (2 cc / lt should do for starters).
Removed a few leaves from 1st and 2nd lady which where covering some branches.
36: Some brown things in the flower. Is that normal?
1st lady is just growing in the lachuza pon granulate. it has ph 7.1 and i just watering her with pur water. maybe it will work but her developing seems to be behind 2nd lady.
37: Feeded 2nd lady with 1.5l water PH 5.8 and 2ml/l BioGrow and 2ml/l BioBloom, That cocktail had ec of 414ppm. the water had around ec of 180 ppm. I will try to optimize the mix of purified water and tap water. What should the proportion be between cal/mag? The tap water has a proportion of 7:1.
40: Feeded 2nd lady with 1.0l water PH 5.9 and 2ml/l BioGrow, 1 ml TopMax and 3ml/l BioBloom, That cocktail had ec of 580ppm. the water had around ec of 200 ppm. A few lower leaves look a very little bit turning into light green. At all she looks very healthy in my opinion. And they are really stinky 😂
The side branches grow fine. I counted 10 of them 😍 They reach nearly 30 cm. Main branch is over 40 cm I think. Need to buy a measurement think 😇 I think LST is good for dwarfs but I have to work on the technique a little bit in the future.
41: I can measure height now. 1st lady is only 28cm. 2nd lady is 38cm and side branches 28cm.
42: Same cocktail as week 40. 1.25 l
New week ...
43:
height of 2nd lady is 38 cm. Side branches reaches 29 cm. Main cola didn't grow in height significant. Maybe end of getting taller?
1st lady reaches 29 cm.
44: 1st ladies leves turning into yellow at the bottom 😥
47: Found a leaf with brown dots and spikes 😵
48: Feeded 2nd lady with a new nut-mix ...
49: End of week 7. 1st lady reached 32 cm, 2nd lady 40cm.
With my cocktail for 2nd lady I reach an EC of 580 ppm. Is that enough or should I gain nutrients? It seems she stopped growing into height. Should I do something against that? What is a good amount of cal/mag in the water?
Hello ! At that stage in soilless medium you should already be around 1.5 / 1.7 Ec and the cal mag should represents 0.3 points of Ec which mean that with a tap water at 0.3 Ec you add cal mag until 0.6 is reached then you go to 1.5/1.7 by mixing your nutrients. So to answer your question : yes you need to add more nuts. And you can't do anything to make her gain more height as the stretch is now almost done so until harvest the gain of height will not be up to 5cm. I hope it will help you 😁👍
Just watering now with water PH 6.
Day 65: removed a lot of unlucky looking leaves.
Harvested a side branch of each plant for testing 😏 They are not really fat but looking forward to taste them 😜
Tested a side branch yesterday. Wasn't dry at all but the effect was ok. Needed a bit more stuff but I will report later with the final product.
Now I can tell more about smoking her. I did fermantation in a cigar humido for 8 weeks. A neighbour of mine cadged a bit off the stuff from me. A few days later he told me that it was the best weed he had in the last 12 years 😵 That was a honor for me cause I smoked weed only 2 times in my life before! My first experience was frightening. My neighbour ringed the bell after my joint. 5 mins later I laid on the couch, happy to had enough time to show him the door. I got relly dizziness, fear of falling on the floor. Than I had 2 veeeeeeeery long hours off panic and scare of death. Heart was beating like a drum and no control to my body. I got a really dry mouth, fear to dry out. Drinking was really a problem. I got vibrating arms, hands and fingers.
After that trip I thought I will never do that again 😂 But one week later I did it with much less weed. And that was the point I fell in love to smoke her 😍Now I need really a lot off stuff to feel really good. Maybe I developed a resistance 😱 But my neighbour is still happy if he can get a bit of her 😜
The high is really relaxing and pressing you into the couch. But I like that! With a few beer in the evening I can sleep like a marmot
Maybe I need a stronger (more THC) strain next time but taste and effect of the dwarf is wonderful!💤
It was time to harvest today. After 18h in darkness she had to take off her clothes 😍
173g wet weight like she is on the photos. I removed 2 side branches for testing the last 10 days so it was a bit more mass.
Looking forward to the dried weight. I hope I can reach at least 40g with her.
1st lady in Lechuza pon granulate only had 66 g wet weight as it is on the photo. Not the best yield 😭
Day 82: Dry weight 1st: 21g, 2nd 52g without stems. I decided to do a fermantation in a cigar humidor on the second one. I hope it will be finished in 8 weeks.
The humidor was cleaned with lobe with pure water. To regulate the humidity I put in a container with salt soaked with 10 ml pure water and a few drops of propylene glycol to avoid mold.
Humidity should be between 65 and 70%. Now it's 75%. I have a look on it 😱0
They're about to triple in size, mine looked a lot like yours in week 5 and it went from 23 cm to 60 in a week .
Also I wouldn't do bloom fertilizers yet, it's going to be another week or too to actually flower, you have preflowers. They still need the nitrogen for their stretch
@Alpaca,
You raise a point I have meant to address for a while, and I’m prompted now. I both thank you and apologize for having selected your post as an example of how one’s experience is one’s experience only, and we should be careful to then extrapolate “This is what happened to me, so this is what’s going to happen to you”.
Every grow... every grower will have a unique experience due to all the variables, even when using identical seeds or clones. Maybe these plants will triple in size. Maybe not. It’s hard to speculate accurately how another grow will develop based upon a personal experience. And I find that one of the most fascinating aspects of cannabis. It has a strong personality of its own!
@howie03, You'll see friend, mine showed preflowers since week 4 but it only started really flowering late in week 6. I saw your close up, those are the first preflowers.
Your lady nr 1 is looking as if she has wet roots/ rootproblems, the second is looking very nice. Both got a very nice shape, wonderful dwarf
do you have little black flies in your room=?
@Mrs_Larimar, Thank you 😊 I hope I will not overfeed my 2nd lady. She's developing very nice! There appear some light green dots/areas on some of the leaves of the main cola. Is that normal? (pic 40: 2nd lady main cola)
@Mrs_Larimar, Now 1st lady doesn't look droopy any more. I think I have overwatered her. Some tips are getting brown and google says that could be one cause. It's not easy to find out if there is enough water in the granulate because it's very heavy. Maybe it's not the best medium for the plant but we will see.
Don't worry about a few leaves at the bottom yellowing and dying. The plant does that because those leaves weren't getting enough light. My big girls both lost about 6 leaf sets at the bottom
he is looking good and healthy. The has good Disatance between the Nodes. And yes you can give her more LIght... but the 150 watt should be enoughfor only one plant. Yes LST is a good thing. Most Automatics respond very well on it. I wont top her.. its alwys adecision how well does a plant grow, and i dont see her as aTopping candidate. Youve choosen good genetics from RQS. She wont be a giant, but if you treat her nice she will give you a good yield. here are some RQS dwarf grows that are spectacular. Have a look ( dont remember the grower atm)
If you want to do LST start now .. you will have atime-window for 10-14 days to do it
You can be really happy with your first growth things are coming along great at this point and of week three it's always a good time to do a bit of foliation
Your buds look amazing my friend and I believe congratulations are in order. You put in the work and time over the last few months and it has given you some beautiful results. I wish you all the best in your next grow and I'm so happy for you that this grow has turned out as beautiful as it has. Cheers my friend and happy smoking!
howie03
